Top showjumper identified dead in bedroom died from heart failure

She had also educated up several horses – 1 which had later on gone on to promote for £750,000 and competed at nationwide level.

Laura was found unresponsive in her bed by Mr Ferguson, 59, at their property right after telling him she had a headache.

In the hrs prior to her death Laura had posted two jokey messages on her Facebook page saying how she was enjoying carrot and coriander soup and including: “Omg why am I commencing to come to lifestyle now when it is bed time!”

She advised also buddies she had “not been this content for years.” On Tuesday an inquest coroner ruled her death was due to heart difficulty and was not linked to her eating disorder.

Mr Ferguson told the inquest that she had struggled to cope with her mother’s death from a heart attack, and subsequently produced anorexia.

Laura was very near to her mom and was really substantially affected by that,’ Mr Ferguson explained.

‘For the next couple of months she was not consuming effectively. She experimented with to disguise it with baggy garments.’

Miss Ferguson consulted her GP about her consuming disorder, and was referred to two clinics such as the Priory Centre in Bury.

He added that in her twenties she had received “really enthusiastic” about vitamins and dietary supplements but that it had just been a “phase”.

‘She invested some time there but when she came out her appetite had returned,’ her father mentioned. ‘She had responded to therapy.

‘She seemed definitely fine and was very pleased with herself. She had everything to seem forward to.

‘We had booked a vacation to Egypt in September. She had been out getting new outfits – she was excited.’

Collect photograph of Laura Ferguson riding her horse known as Will (Cavendish)

Mr Ferguson said that his daughter, whom he described as ‘fit and active’, complained of a headache when she returned from perform on September 22.

He imagined she was asleep when he checked her bedroom at 8am the subsequent day, but when he looked yet again at midday she was ‘unresponsive’.

Pathologist Abdul Al-Dawoud, who carried out a port-mortem examination, explained the ‘most likely’ lead to of death was an inflammation of the heart named myocarditis, frequently brought on by viral infections.

He explained: ‘There is nothing at all to suggest that this is anything at all other than a all-natural lead to of death. This health-related result in of death is not uncommon.’

Coroner Richard Taylor concluded that Miss Ferguson died of organic triggers, saying: ‘There was a difficulty with her heart. From what the physician has informed me, it can’t be something else.’

Speaking soon after the inquest Mr Ferguson, a retired factory worker stated the inquest had offered him some closure.

He explained: “Yes it is provided me some closure realizing it was natural causes. I have been waiting for the postman daily to find out the date of the inquest.

“I can’t realize how a lady of her age who is as match as a fiddle can go to rest and not wake up, it’s unbelievable. I have by no means heard of myocarditis, she did not complain.

“We both missed her mum so a lot but we were acquiring by way of it and in the last yr or so we started enjoying Christmas. We had been the two receiving by means of it. I will not bother with the horse planet now, it truly is as well unpleasant. I come to feel lost.”